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Man ends up miles from home after carjacking, kidnapping

A south Florida man heading to work Monday morning wound up hundreds of miles away in central Florida after police said he was carjacked, then kidnapped.

The victim, 50-year-old Mark Kaszubski, said he was carjacked in Boynton Beach by a man who threatened to shoot him.

"I never saw a gun, but he said that, and I didn't want to take a chance," said Kaszubski.

Kaszubski was still very shaken up when he talked only to WESH 2 after a bizarre ordeal that started just after 7 a.m.

He spent several hours with police trying to explain it all. Kaszubski said he just filled up his black Lexus in his hometown of Boynton Beach, heading to work when suddenly a man jumped in his back seat.

"He hopped in the car and threatened, you know, for me to drive or else, you know, he would shoot me or whatever," said Kaszubski.

Kaszubski told police the man mentioned Georgia several times, but there was very little conversation until the carjacker demanded Kaszubski stop on the shoulder of Interstate 95 in Ormond Beach and ordered him to open the trunk.

"He kept his hand in the thing like insinuating he had a weapon or whatever, and then he actually, we made two trips from the trunk to the back seat as he was grabbing stuff," said Kaszubski.

The victim said the man took weird stuff, a blanket, a towel and some change from his console, but on the third trip to the trunk, Kaszubski pushed the carjacker down on the highway and drove away.

Police called for a lockdown on two area schools near the highway and searched by ground and by air but never found anyone.

The employees at the Sunoco gas station said when Kaszubski drove in, he was a wreck.